An Audit Report on Contract Administration in the Department of Criminal Justice's Community Justice Assistance Division
September 2004
Report Number 05-002
Overall Conclusion
The Department of Criminal Justice's Community Justice Assistance Division (CJAD) needs to increase the accuracy and completeness of the information it uses to allocate funds for adult probation services and improve the monitoring of its agreements with the community supervision and corrections departments (CSCDs) that provide these services.
Inaccurate and incomplete information may limit CJAD's ability to appropriately allocate state funds to CSCDs, which totaled approximately $219 million in fiscal year 2004.
In addition, CJAD's monitoring may not be sufficient to ensure that CSCDs and their subcontractors spend state money as intended. CJAD performs some monitoring of CSCDs' program and financial data; however, the number of reviews, the timing of the monitoring, and the efficiency of the monitoring processes need improvement. Our review of the expenditures at three CSCDs did not identify any instances where funds were spent inappropriately.
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